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Chicago examiner thursday january 13 1 910 14 pages fl t t ie weather h f^a Chicago and vicinity snow o 4 y rain thursday colder at night % j , friday partly cloudy and colder t^-y v w moderate to brisk easterly shifting mjljj j to northwest winds ju vol viii no 20 a m a tt vou flre coolcing || i h a furnished rcom with or without wf '! s board read the room ads there are t } a hundreds of them every day in the j j j examiner luanf mi f price one cent s u ' e Â«* r c f le jl 1 ! 30 crat per month | 600 foremost men of Chicago toast calhoun as civic bodies dine him bar and business leaders wish new minister to china godspeed glowing tributes paid diplomat says policy will be to prove united states hon esty in the orient william j calhoun was cheered and wished godspeed in his mission as united states minister to china by 600 men prom inent in the business and professional life of Chicago last night at a banquet given in his honor at the hotel la salle by the Chicago bar association in affilia tion with the Chicago association of com merce the hamilton club the Illinois manufacturers association the industrial club and the union league club extension of the influence of the united states as a world power not by the mailed fist or through political dom inance but by moral and commercial su m-emaey mr calhoun declared would be his aim as a diplomat the sending of the country's best men a broad as its commercial representatives and greater care on the part of manufac turers to adapt their export goods to the peculiar notions and desires of the eoun iries with which they seek trade were urged by the minister designate as means to this end speakers toast calhoun as a lawyer citizen and man mr cal honu received the highest mead of praise from the speakers of the evening who in cluded joseph h defrees toastmaster william h stead attorney general of Illinois and george m reynolds president of the continental national bank gath ered about the tables were the men who stand foremost in the law judiciary and merchandizing and commerce of the city never was there a more brilliant tribute paid to a Chicago citizen for his great ness at the bar form's distinction as the friend and confidant of presidents for his success in difficult missions as special commissioner to cuba for president mckin ley and to venezuela for president roose relt for his qualities as a citizen and the exemplary qualities of hie private life mr caluoun was praised by the speakers and roundly applauded by the men who have known him socially and in business had mr calhoun been on the eve of leaving for washington to be inaugurated president of the united states the tributes could not have been more lavish by toastmaster defrees he was described as the man who has declined more honors than any nan in the state by attor ney general stead he was praised as a lawyer who has accomplished big things in a civic way like governor hughes of new york and president Taft who was first a lawyer then a judge and then governor of the philippines always true to best mr stead declared mr calhoun was a man to whom attached no blame a man who was always true to the best and worthy of praise as a citizen said mr stead he stands for what makes private life clean md public life honest he believes citi zenshid means more than paying taxes and keeping out of jail both at home and abroad he has met every requirement in his hand american prestige is secure and america honor sacred whether intentional or not mention of president Taft was not greeted with the acclaim that might have been expected under lue circumstances when his name was spoken there were cheers and three men out of the 000 rose to their feet the incident might not have caused comment bad it not been fov the enthusiasm which prevailed the banqueters rose en masse and cheered for calhoun they rose when the orebestja struck up america and again when it played Illinois r by george m reynolds mr calhoun was praised as a lawyer who united in his ripiliment the skill of a specialist in the law and an all around man in business mr calhoun bus m-de many speeches since his rather sudden appointment as minister to china following the recall of charles e crane as the latter was about to leave san francisco to take up the duties of hat post in view r the fact that mr crane was asked to resign by secretary of state knox ostensibly for talking too much mr calhoun in the first of his re cent banquet speeches confessed that he labored under a restraint which his hearers could well derstand last night while eschewing topics re lating to diplomatic negotiations the new minister to pekln made free to tell what he hoped to do in a commercial way and to the business men asembled no subject could have held greater interest the commercial interests of this coun try be said are close to my heart i will make a close study of the commercial conditions * it was the kind of a message the as sembled manufacturers and merchants anted to hear and they applauded it as a great speech criticises business methods the diplomat did not hesitate to criti ise the methods of american business men m seeking trade eutpftc abroad in the i>ast tit reiencj to ui observations in vene zuela as instances of the unbusinesslike methods at cultivating trade relations with that country the kind of representatives nicaraguan army is smothered by rebels full strength of 4.000 revolutionists swarms upon government trenches winning decisive victory san juan del sur jan 12.â€”persis tent rumors which fill the air here tell of a desperate and decisive battle between the revolutionists and the government forces at acoyapa to-day while details are lacking the stories say that the full strength of general cha morro's advancing column some 4.000 strong was thrown against the govern ment intrenehments and the army under general vasquez was overwhelmingly de feated the first reports said that general menas division had marched into the town unopposed this was later denied and a report evidently inspired by the govern ment was given out declaring that there were no revolutionists anywhere in the dis trict of chontales in which acoyapa is situated when the source of this report became known it was generally discounted scientists find cause of infantile paralysis experiments on monkeys at rocke feller institute yield secret that iviry end dread plague sew york jan 12 experiments on monkeys in the laboratory of the rocke feller institute it was learned to-day have shown that infantile paralysis wlich was epidemic in this city last fall is an in fectious disease of the spinal cord a re port to that effect is being prepared until now itÃŸ nature has been almost a com plete riddle to scientists last year its ravaages in this city broke all records more than 2,000 persons were afflicted the first test in the rockefeller labora tories discovered that it was not a blood disease a portion of the spinal cord of a child which had died from infantile paraly sis was then transplanted in the upper end of the vertebrae of a monkey almost im mediately the animal fell ill its legs began to shrivel and it grew more and more helpless just as a child does when seized by the disease on the death of a monkey afflicted with infant paralysis its brain and spinal tis sues were studied under powerful micro scopes for the purpose of discovering a dis tinctive mierolje none was found as soon as a bit of the spinalÂ»col>imn of one paralyzed monkey was transferred to another that monkey invariably fell u 11 warships for canada lanrler bill gives dominion con trol of cruisers and destroyers ottawa ont jan 12 canada is to have a navy of its own the fleet will con sist of eleven vessels â€” four cruisers of the british type one of the boadicea type and six destroyers the cost on a basis of brit ish calculation will be 2,338,000 the canadian cost will be 22 per cent addi tional sir wilfred laurier iu the house this afternoon introduced the naval bill he first expressed regret at the illness of mr brodeur in whose name the bill stood 11 provides for a naval militia consisting of a permanent force reserve force and volun teer force while the naval force is to be under con trol of the government in case of emer gency the government may place it at the disposal of the british admiralty 14,000,000 flood loss salt lake w nnhoi^t called greatest of all l(:iili\n disasters salt lake utah jan 12 advices from the flooded district of the san pedro los angeles and salt lake route filter in slowly it is knowu that ninety-three miles of track are gone and that the road is in fact practically washed out in iong stretches all trains save four locals have been abandoned it is announced that tnere will be no through schedule made before september it is conservative ly estimated that it will cost 14,000,000 to rebuild the line which must folio v a different route and one which detours to meadow valley the damage is so stu pendous the officials themselves cannot give comprehensive details it is 3u sidered the greatest railroad disaster iu he history of the world 14 injured by explosion one killed when acetylene gas mo l]i in wisconnin siiiavaukde wls jan li fourteen persons were injured one fatally and live others were seriously hurt in an explosion of acetyleue gas in a palm garden owned by henry xlesseschmidt of farmiugton twenty miles from here wednesday night one man fred kless of farniinirton had his skull broken and will die five had their legs broken one of them albert klug of concord being so badly mangled that his lp will be amputated every person in the building at the time with the ei eentlon of messersehmidfs two small chil dren were more or less hurt the explo sion v-rurjmmng a party something went wroi^^^^ktbe lights and messer schmidt Â»'â– basement witii a lighted hjm xbeu came punish brokers for coup in rock island stock exchange suspends two for executing famous order for 40,000 shares new control for road holding company for system in unannounced meeting changes its officers new york jan 12 simon b cuapin liead of the stock brokerage firm of s b chapin & co with new york offices at 111 broadway and Chicago offices in the rook ery was to-day suspended from the priv ileges of the stock exchange by the gov erning committee for a period of sixty days and his partner f d countiss was suspended for thirty days is a result of the action of the firm on december 27 last in executing orders during the sensational flurry in rock island common stock which culminated on that day in a semi-panic after the sensational movement iu rock island when iu the first fifteen minutes of business on december 27 the stock ad vanced more than thirty points and de clined as many in the same brief period of time the scandal â– became so great that the governing committee held a special meeting after the close of the market and appoluted ernest groesbeek frederick l eames and j t atterbuiy a committee to investigate the cause of the violent flurry which caused many to suffer serious financial loss coincident with this action by the gov erning board at a meeting of the rock island company which was announced and which was practically unknown iu wall street richard a jackson of Chicago president of the rock island company the holding corporation of the rock island railroad and closely identified with the daniel g reid and william h moore interests in that property resigned his office as well as the chairmanship of the | executive committee roberts walker whose home is at scarsdale n y but who has had an office at 110 broadway in which is situ ated the rock island offices was to-day elected a director chairman of the execu tive committee and general counsel of the Chicago rock island & pacific railroad and also a member of the finance commit tee of the rock island iu which daniel g reid has been the dominant factor also elected president he was also elected president of the rock island company in place of jackson the latter was counsel for the system for many years and was elected to the presidency of the rock island holding com pany as recently as last december at the rock island offices in this city all information as to the meeting was declined but it was stated that a state ment might be given out in the morning at the home of mr walker in scarsdale mrs walker confirmed the statement as to her husband's election but said he was absent iu Chicago one of the directors of the company who did not wish his name to be disclosed also confirmed the news of mr walker's election this meeting of rock island interests and the importance of the change in man agement decided upon gives color to the theory that the governing committee of the stock exchange impressed with the fact that a conservative management of rock island affairs is to be inaugurated was inclined to deal lieniently with those brokers with the buying orders of rock island which caused so great a sensation in wall street on the monday after christ mas that the measure of discipline de cided on to-day is mild in the extreme is without question and there was much dis cussion this evening as to the underlying motive therefor session lasts two hours the governing committee was in session for a little less than two hours and at its termination secretary ely made the an nouncement of the suspension of messrs chapin and countiss one of the curious features of the whole matter lies iu the fact that at the time of the flurry mr countiss was in Chicago late to-night s b chapin & co issued a statement in which they said we received an order on december 27 from a customer to buy 40,000 shares of rock island common at the market price at the opening and were expressly directed to give it out to twenty brokers to buy 2.000 shares each the execution of the orders caused trouble and confusion but in doing this we simply acted as directed and our customer paid for the stock the following day we tvere left without any discretion in the matter we had no reason to believe there was any purpose or design on the part of the customer except to acquire the shares mentioned the result was purely an accident the disturbance coulrl not possibly have been foreseen roberts walker is thirty-five years ld and a native of rutland vt roberts walker has been assistant gen eral counsel for the Chicago rock island & pacific railroad for many years he is a son of a f walker former chairman of the interstate commerce commission according to george h crosby a local official for the road he is not considered wealthy and probably owns no interest in the road on his own account just what interests he represents none of the chi cago officials appeared able or willing to say mrs belmont in panic fire brtv snffragrettes and hun dreds of dllicra to street new yokk jan 12.-lji-s o h r belmont and seventeen suffragettes were unoug several hundred women who be came pauit-stiiukeii this afternoon when fire was discovered in the office building at 500 fifth avenue in which the suffra gettes diave their headquarters on the seventeenth floor mrs belmont and the suffragettes whom she had been address ins i-'i to the elevators and reached the "â€žâ€ž'. . â– r ,â€¢?â– '. it-d rtcr t!v et'frc republican ship will jettison cannon Taft agrees to sacrifice of speaker even friends say democrats will win unless they pledge against uncle joe by william h culver washington jan 12.â€”"uncle joe cannon Illinois most picturesque though least respected statesman just now is to be the real issue in the coming congres sional campaign republican leaders who are not insurgents frankly admit in private | conversation that they must either repu diate cannon or else there will he a demo cratic house in the next congress the speaker made himself the issue when he declared flatly two days ago that he would be a candidate both for re-election i las a member and as speaker it had been | i known all the time that sucii was his pri vate intention but there was a movement nfoot backed by'the president quietly to shelve the ngjng gentleman and restore bar mony is be refuses to be shelved there re j mains but one other thingâ€”repudiation i the ohio members have taken the lead in that direetoin and nine of them are non practically pledged to go before their constituents and openly declare that they will not vote for cannon for speaker if they are re-elected the nine are representatives taylor johnson cole douglas howland joyce cassldy holliugsworth and thomas they held a meeting this morning to consider their course and vlillc tliey not f<>r malty adopt resolutions or auv u t ui.n sort they are entirely agreed as to what i they will do many want him to retire in addition to the ohio acquisitions one of the leaders of the insurgent forces to night made the assertion that when the time comes the following additional mem bers of the regular organization will in form cannon of their unalterable opposi tion to another term for him as speaker plumley and foster of vermont law rence and ames of massachusetts hill and higgins of connecticut fairchild and par sous of new york palmer of pennsyl vania crnmpacker and bernard of in diana hamilton and mcloughlin of mich igan graff and prince of Illinois xye of minnesota davidson of wisconsin homer of idaho and anthony scott miller cal derhead reeder and campbell of kansas dalzell of pennsylvania one of cannon's committee on rules is said to have ad mitted privately that political expediency may force the party to throw cannon over board the effrrt at present seems to tje to con vince cannon that he cannot ue re-elected speaker with that accomplished it is reasoned tliat his pride may be worked on to decline a re-nomination to congress â€” voluntary retirement being preferable to prospective defeat for the speakership after re-election opposition in own delegation in cannon's own state of Illinois at least a part of his colleagues are prepar ing to do the same thing naturally such stand-patters as mckinley mann and rodenberg will stand by him members like prince foss and wilson may be ex pected to declare themselves free agents when the time comes it is really a question that i think there is no use worrying about said one of the Illinois members to-day for i be lieve the thing has already gone so far that a democratic house is a certainty in the states that insurgents come from like wisconsin lowa minnesota and kan sas the candidates are not only going to pledge themselves against uncle joe but they will make their light in the primaries at least on the issue that he shall not be re-elected as speaker in minnesota even jim tawney hither to one of the speaker's right-hand men is likely to be forced to repudiate his friend he was re-elected the minnesota member of the congressional committee to-day upon a promise to be good and that means that he is the hostage to secure fair treatment by the insurgent candidates at the hands of the committee insurgents cheered by Taft the insurgents were well pleased with the situation to-day because they had re ceived word that the president haa changed hta attitude somewhat and is now wliling that the anti-cannonists should go as far as they like in fighting the speaker so loug as they do not endanger adminu irntlou measures thereby also they got a hint that they are to be taken off the patronage black list representative miller who first an nounced that the insurgent patronage hart leen held up also spread the news that possibly the rule has been altered he sent to the postofflce department yester day the names of three appointees for small offices to make a test ease as he said nand he received word from post master general hitchcock to-day that they would go through immediately he and s . <â– '_> â– Â» s^>^xg^^>v.vs>4><^<sx^>^>^><^^ks>4><g>^>^<s><s i>^i>^^><s^><i^s><iy^^^s>^>^^s sxs weather forecast â€” for washington insurgent blizzard v/ith high winds and 4 falling temperature storm sig nals all along the potomac | unknown 5,000 feet creates world's record 40,000 gasp at his peril frenÂ£hrrmn stays in air fifty minutes descends to greatest ovation ever given aviator jt os angeles cal jan.-12 r lojiis pauilian daring french aviator i rose 5,000.04 feet in the air in his farmqn biplane to-day breaking " the world's record for altitude forty thousand wildly cheering peo ple witnessed paulhan's flight and gave him the greatest ovation ever ac corded an aviator when he descended paulhan's own story of the flight follows ' ,';' by louis paulhan when i left the ground in my farman machine i was deter mined to beat the record for altitude i succeeded and don't see what more could be said about it my eyes hurt me a little but i experienced no fear or dizziness it was quite cold up there but a kiss from madame paulhan and this glass of hot wine is all that is necessary to dissipate any chilli ness a good cigar and i will be perfectly happy oh tertainement is was a wonderful sensation to fly so high the ocean and the valleys and mountains looked like a big plate with here and there a speck probably a little town nd directly under me another speck : â€” aviation field i was watching my altitude instrument very closely when i made roar fourth circuit the needle pointed at no 4 a^.ha i thought this is latham's record and i must go higher and higher i went holding on tight to my wheel i gradually lost all sense of space several times after i had reached the highest alti tude i turned off the current and soared along like a veritable eagle then i forgot to look down 1 1 was so still around me so peace ful that i became totally oblivious of time nor did i think of speed several times i stood still or so it seemed and i began tt feel as if i could sail forever there was no wind the air was cold but wonder fully pure every breath i took seemed to be liquid ecstasy i am glad of course over the fact that i beat latham to-morrow when he reads of this event in the paris papers he will at once go to his hangar order out his machine and try to fly higher still if he does i will fly into paradise and defy him to follow me there i had gradually dropped to an altitude of 3,000 feet when i realized that i could not spend the night in the skies i decided to shoot down at an angle of about 30 degrees straight down from where i was and 1 ad upon the spot from which i had started it was the simplest thing in the world i set down my machine ten feet from where i had started my flight paulhan a mile in the air shuts off motor and soars like a bird los axgklks cal jan 1 a pink faced little frenchman riding on a flimsy frame of wood and metal covered with white silk mounted nearly a mile above the ground this afternoon at the interna tional midwinter aviation tournament and before a madly-cheering multitude of 40 000 flying machine enthusiasts broke the world's record for altitude attained in an aeroplane it was louis paulhan of france he reached a height of 7.000 feet the frenchman's daring and sensational feat stirred watching aviators and euthu siasls into a frenzy of delight when his biplane descended to the ground about v ;â– â€¢! krnÂ«ij|gj-.i-v'>'-.fl rv-"r,n '"->< seized as be stepped stiffly from his seat i and lifted upon the sjionldcrs of frantic friends and carried in triumph before the delirious shouting throng fanlnau blushed like a schoolgirl wife enjoys triumph his petite wife who t?oukl . uot under stand a word of the praise bestowed in english upon her husband clasped her tiny gloved hands and gazed rapturously upon tie scene babbling now and tbeu musical little french phrases which sounded for all the world like the cooing of a dove waterway and primary bills pass senate amid riot solons hiss and hoot lieuten ant governor as he gavels through to third reading the daily election measure house in uproar speaker pro tem is threatened adjournment only saves rep sollitt of Chicago from vio lence third row breaks out in the subcommittee ioglesby's use of gavel cause of wild session i obeys orders of steering com : mittee while members yeh in vain senator jones touches off the dynamite by a staff correspondent i i sjutingkikld jan i beth branch or tlic legislature indulged their warlike proclivities to-day in near approaches to riÂ«tin;t in the senate lieutenant goveru or john oglesby wÂ»s hkseil w\d booted i by sheer exercise of nerve lie held half Â» hundred aogry excited men in subjection and gaveled tbruuiru to third re:tiiiu the dully committee ill the ndmiulstriitloii hopes to see become ie law governing pri mary elections the lower li li â– d its j^j^^f proceed further ' aflÃŸl liil oi v dicag nctro : . ' liairmuno^^j a session in which the represeutnt *â– " ot i the whole was tu>t only subjected t verbal i i abuse but was threatened w!ii beidg â– dragged from the speakers chnlr li was â– only by briugiug the meeting to a close â– that physical hostilities were avoided 1 to add to the militant turn u t a n a .â€¢ a j^^j house subcommittee of bfteeu tn h was referred all pending primary b tion and which no v is burnliig the lid^m night oil after an all-dny session worked^^h itself into n frenzy ri-ujr iw books and inkstands find ui'tieles of or â– niture as inedm:ns for en 1 i icgl ._â– lathe nrguineut was narrowly avoided out of chaos come result out of this chaos came results of widÂ«!,r m varying character the schmltt ivai â– h bill which is the administration nieii^j ou the subject was passed in the upp louse the daily primary bill tree from incu'ji s bering amendmenls wmch were offered in profusion is in line for pnssiige in !>;Â« senate to-morrow unless tlt 1 '.:: f i o*"l "''^^| gendered to-day precipitates another dgiil^b the administriition irhlp [^ lu'ins ruck ' nnd cracki'd hard and as opposing senat confidently expect the lower house to tear it to pieces prospects indicate the admin iÃŸfratibn programme of passiug it along will be followed the republican steering oniiiittee of h the senate which hitherto hat been a â– power of fust uiasniiuj wa 3 repndiated h ijy lieutenant governor oglev.by who b virtue of his office sits as president of r 9 seriate it w;ts repudiated by its off i members and by many of lie l!eiiui>licu senators in a dramatic moment when last seen senator jones a bb many instances has been accepted as ernor deneeu's spokesman and who broukhlh in the situation by trying to gei '""^^^ under responsibility for he gavel rule de v nanded by the steering committee wart h being advised by colleagues to lav in a supply of hot water hags for application to vfl his pedal extremities his leaflm-sliip ii h a mutter of the past 9 primary action in house fl the only other big development was tht effort in the house to bi-iug primary legis fl lation to an issue through the appointment h of the shl)conmiittee of aftecn minor h progressive developments were numerous v including the receipt of a special messtig 1 from the governer recommeikllng legisla i tion to accord greater safety to miners and i presenting the report ot the committed m named by htm to investisate the snbjcct â– the se/iate fracas dpened with the appear â– ance of the primary bill on second rending fl senator isley started the ball l-olling by h offering an amendment amounting to a v proposition to substitute bis bill which m pro^ides for secrecy as to party afftlia tlons he made a long plea but fonu4 h himself up against a stone wall wt the same fate awaited an amendment i offered by senator dunlup providing that h the order to wlilota candidates nntues islip.h i appear shall be changed fr.nn time to tim in the printing of the ballots and one t senator ciarl providii ,' that position oi fl the ballot shall be determined by drawing i lots all three wer loudly voicing iÂ«i!on-â„¢b tent wben senator ourtiss galn-.;d the foot b nnd proposed an amendment ifl members of the lower house from fb'^l operation of the bill spark in powder magazine sen:ik>r potter moved to table the j tlon^be method o asphjxlation anpilÂ«9 to_^v preceding offerings before thjl flh 1 ' "' iovern ;- r.t i jiwt^b trm -.. ir "-' *>?"?. 5th column | i i ii s â€” â– / contint.i-h on 6th pan 2d coli^^i . 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Chicago examiner thursday january 13 1 910 14 pages fl t t ie weather h f^a Chicago and vicinity snow o 4 y rain thursday colder at night % j , friday partly cloudy and colder t^-y v w moderate to brisk easterly shifting mjljj j to northwest winds ju vol viii no 20 a m a tt vou flre coolcing || i h a furnished rcom with or without wf '! s board read the room ads there are t } a hundreds of them every day in the j j j examiner luanf mi f price one cent s u ' e Â«* r c f le jl 1 ! 30 crat per month | 600 foremost men of Chicago toast calhoun as civic bodies dine him bar and business leaders wish new minister to china godspeed glowing tributes paid diplomat says policy will be to prove united states hon esty in the orient william j calhoun was cheered and wished godspeed in his mission as united states minister to china by 600 men prom inent in the business and professional life of Chicago last night at a banquet given in his honor at the hotel la salle by the Chicago bar association in affilia tion with the Chicago association of com merce the hamilton club the Illinois manufacturers association the industrial club and the union league club extension of the influence of the united states as a world power not by the mailed fist or through political dom inance but by moral and commercial su m-emaey mr calhoun declared would be his aim as a diplomat the sending of the country's best men a broad as its commercial representatives and greater care on the part of manufac turers to adapt their export goods to the peculiar notions and desires of the eoun iries with which they seek trade were urged by the minister designate as means to this end speakers toast calhoun as a lawyer citizen and man mr cal honu received the highest mead of praise from the speakers of the evening who in cluded joseph h defrees toastmaster william h stead attorney general of Illinois and george m reynolds president of the continental national bank gath ered about the tables were the men who stand foremost in the law judiciary and merchandizing and commerce of the city never was there a more brilliant tribute paid to a Chicago citizen for his great ness at the bar form's distinction as the friend and confidant of presidents for his success in difficult missions as special commissioner to cuba for president mckin ley and to venezuela for president roose relt for his qualities as a citizen and the exemplary qualities of hie private life mr caluoun was praised by the speakers and roundly applauded by the men who have known him socially and in business had mr calhoun been on the eve of leaving for washington to be inaugurated president of the united states the tributes could not have been more lavish by toastmaster defrees he was described as the man who has declined more honors than any nan in the state by attor ney general stead he was praised as a lawyer who has accomplished big things in a civic way like governor hughes of new york and president Taft who was first a lawyer then a judge and then governor of the philippines always true to best mr stead declared mr calhoun was a man to whom attached no blame a man who was always true to the best and worthy of praise as a citizen said mr stead he stands for what makes private life clean md public life honest he believes citi zenshid means more than paying taxes and keeping out of jail both at home and abroad he has met every requirement in his hand american prestige is secure and america honor sacred whether intentional or not mention of president Taft was not greeted with the acclaim that might have been expected under lue circumstances when his name was spoken there were cheers and three men out of the 000 rose to their feet the incident might not have caused comment bad it not been fov the enthusiasm which prevailed the banqueters rose en masse and cheered for calhoun they rose when the orebestja struck up america and again when it played Illinois r by george m reynolds mr calhoun was praised as a lawyer who united in his ripiliment the skill of a specialist in the law and an all around man in business mr calhoun bus m-de many speeches since his rather sudden appointment as minister to china following the recall of charles e crane as the latter was about to leave san francisco to take up the duties of hat post in view r the fact that mr crane was asked to resign by secretary of state knox ostensibly for talking too much mr calhoun in the first of his re cent banquet speeches confessed that he labored under a restraint which his hearers could well derstand last night while eschewing topics re lating to diplomatic negotiations the new minister to pekln made free to tell what he hoped to do in a commercial way and to the business men asembled no subject could have held greater interest the commercial interests of this coun try be said are close to my heart i will make a close study of the commercial conditions * it was the kind of a message the as sembled manufacturers and merchants anted to hear and they applauded it as a great speech criticises business methods the diplomat did not hesitate to criti ise the methods of american business men m seeking trade eutpftc abroad in the i>ast tit reiencj to ui observations in vene zuela as instances of the unbusinesslike methods at cultivating trade relations with that country the kind of representatives nicaraguan army is smothered by rebels full strength of 4.000 revolutionists swarms upon government trenches winning decisive victory san juan del sur jan 12.â€”persis tent rumors which fill the air here tell of a desperate and decisive battle between the revolutionists and the government forces at acoyapa to-day while details are lacking the stories say that the full strength of general cha morro's advancing column some 4.000 strong was thrown against the govern ment intrenehments and the army under general vasquez was overwhelmingly de feated the first reports said that general menas division had marched into the town unopposed this was later denied and a report evidently inspired by the govern ment was given out declaring that there were no revolutionists anywhere in the dis trict of chontales in which acoyapa is situated when the source of this report became known it was generally discounted scientists find cause of infantile paralysis experiments on monkeys at rocke feller institute yield secret that iviry end dread plague sew york jan 12 experiments on monkeys in the laboratory of the rocke feller institute it was learned to-day have shown that infantile paralysis wlich was epidemic in this city last fall is an in fectious disease of the spinal cord a re port to that effect is being prepared until now itÃŸ nature has been almost a com plete riddle to scientists last year its ravaages in this city broke all records more than 2,000 persons were afflicted the first test in the rockefeller labora tories discovered that it was not a blood disease a portion of the spinal cord of a child which had died from infantile paraly sis was then transplanted in the upper end of the vertebrae of a monkey almost im mediately the animal fell ill its legs began to shrivel and it grew more and more helpless just as a child does when seized by the disease on the death of a monkey afflicted with infant paralysis its brain and spinal tis sues were studied under powerful micro scopes for the purpose of discovering a dis tinctive mierolje none was found as soon as a bit of the spinalÂ»col>imn of one paralyzed monkey was transferred to another that monkey invariably fell u 11 warships for canada lanrler bill gives dominion con trol of cruisers and destroyers ottawa ont jan 12 canada is to have a navy of its own the fleet will con sist of eleven vessels â€” four cruisers of the british type one of the boadicea type and six destroyers the cost on a basis of brit ish calculation will be 2,338,000 the canadian cost will be 22 per cent addi tional sir wilfred laurier iu the house this afternoon introduced the naval bill he first expressed regret at the illness of mr brodeur in whose name the bill stood 11 provides for a naval militia consisting of a permanent force reserve force and volun teer force while the naval force is to be under con trol of the government in case of emer gency the government may place it at the disposal of the british admiralty 14,000,000 flood loss salt lake w nnhoi^t called greatest of all l(:iili\n disasters salt lake utah jan 12 advices from the flooded district of the san pedro los angeles and salt lake route filter in slowly it is knowu that ninety-three miles of track are gone and that the road is in fact practically washed out in iong stretches all trains save four locals have been abandoned it is announced that tnere will be no through schedule made before september it is conservative ly estimated that it will cost 14,000,000 to rebuild the line which must folio v a different route and one which detours to meadow valley the damage is so stu pendous the officials themselves cannot give comprehensive details it is 3u sidered the greatest railroad disaster iu he history of the world 14 injured by explosion one killed when acetylene gas mo l]i in wisconnin siiiavaukde wls jan li fourteen persons were injured one fatally and live others were seriously hurt in an explosion of acetyleue gas in a palm garden owned by henry xlesseschmidt of farmiugton twenty miles from here wednesday night one man fred kless of farniinirton had his skull broken and will die five had their legs broken one of them albert klug of concord being so badly mangled that his lp will be amputated every person in the building at the time with the ei eentlon of messersehmidfs two small chil dren were more or less hurt the explo sion v-rurjmmng a party something went wroi^^^^ktbe lights and messer schmidt Â»'â– basement witii a lighted hjm xbeu came punish brokers for coup in rock island stock exchange suspends two for executing famous order for 40,000 shares new control for road holding company for system in unannounced meeting changes its officers new york jan 12 simon b cuapin liead of the stock brokerage firm of s b chapin & co with new york offices at 111 broadway and Chicago offices in the rook ery was to-day suspended from the priv ileges of the stock exchange by the gov erning committee for a period of sixty days and his partner f d countiss was suspended for thirty days is a result of the action of the firm on december 27 last in executing orders during the sensational flurry in rock island common stock which culminated on that day in a semi-panic after the sensational movement iu rock island when iu the first fifteen minutes of business on december 27 the stock ad vanced more than thirty points and de clined as many in the same brief period of time the scandal â– became so great that the governing committee held a special meeting after the close of the market and appoluted ernest groesbeek frederick l eames and j t atterbuiy a committee to investigate the cause of the violent flurry which caused many to suffer serious financial loss coincident with this action by the gov erning board at a meeting of the rock island company which was announced and which was practically unknown iu wall street richard a jackson of Chicago president of the rock island company the holding corporation of the rock island railroad and closely identified with the daniel g reid and william h moore interests in that property resigned his office as well as the chairmanship of the | executive committee roberts walker whose home is at scarsdale n y but who has had an office at 110 broadway in which is situ ated the rock island offices was to-day elected a director chairman of the execu tive committee and general counsel of the Chicago rock island & pacific railroad and also a member of the finance commit tee of the rock island iu which daniel g reid has been the dominant factor also elected president he was also elected president of the rock island company in place of jackson the latter was counsel for the system for many years and was elected to the presidency of the rock island holding com pany as recently as last december at the rock island offices in this city all information as to the meeting was declined but it was stated that a state ment might be given out in the morning at the home of mr walker in scarsdale mrs walker confirmed the statement as to her husband's election but said he was absent iu Chicago one of the directors of the company who did not wish his name to be disclosed also confirmed the news of mr walker's election this meeting of rock island interests and the importance of the change in man agement decided upon gives color to the theory that the governing committee of the stock exchange impressed with the fact that a conservative management of rock island affairs is to be inaugurated was inclined to deal lieniently with those brokers with the buying orders of rock island which caused so great a sensation in wall street on the monday after christ mas that the measure of discipline de cided on to-day is mild in the extreme is without question and there was much dis cussion this evening as to the underlying motive therefor session lasts two hours the governing committee was in session for a little less than two hours and at its termination secretary ely made the an nouncement of the suspension of messrs chapin and countiss one of the curious features of the whole matter lies iu the fact that at the time of the flurry mr countiss was in Chicago late to-night s b chapin & co issued a statement in which they said we received an order on december 27 from a customer to buy 40,000 shares of rock island common at the market price at the opening and were expressly directed to give it out to twenty brokers to buy 2.000 shares each the execution of the orders caused trouble and confusion but in doing this we simply acted as directed and our customer paid for the stock the following day we tvere left without any discretion in the matter we had no reason to believe there was any purpose or design on the part of the customer except to acquire the shares mentioned the result was purely an accident the disturbance coulrl not possibly have been foreseen roberts walker is thirty-five years ld and a native of rutland vt roberts walker has been assistant gen eral counsel for the Chicago rock island & pacific railroad for many years he is a son of a f walker former chairman of the interstate commerce commission according to george h crosby a local official for the road he is not considered wealthy and probably owns no interest in the road on his own account just what interests he represents none of the chi cago officials appeared able or willing to say mrs belmont in panic fire brtv snffragrettes and hun dreds of dllicra to street new yokk jan 12.-lji-s o h r belmont and seventeen suffragettes were unoug several hundred women who be came pauit-stiiukeii this afternoon when fire was discovered in the office building at 500 fifth avenue in which the suffra gettes diave their headquarters on the seventeenth floor mrs belmont and the suffragettes whom she had been address ins i-'i to the elevators and reached the "â€žâ€ž'. . â– r ,â€¢?â– '. it-d rtcr t!v et'frc republican ship will jettison cannon Taft agrees to sacrifice of speaker even friends say democrats will win unless they pledge against uncle joe by william h culver washington jan 12.â€”"uncle joe cannon Illinois most picturesque though least respected statesman just now is to be the real issue in the coming congres sional campaign republican leaders who are not insurgents frankly admit in private | conversation that they must either repu diate cannon or else there will he a demo cratic house in the next congress the speaker made himself the issue when he declared flatly two days ago that he would be a candidate both for re-election i las a member and as speaker it had been | i known all the time that sucii was his pri vate intention but there was a movement nfoot backed by'the president quietly to shelve the ngjng gentleman and restore bar mony is be refuses to be shelved there re j mains but one other thingâ€”repudiation i the ohio members have taken the lead in that direetoin and nine of them are non practically pledged to go before their constituents and openly declare that they will not vote for cannon for speaker if they are re-elected the nine are representatives taylor johnson cole douglas howland joyce cassldy holliugsworth and thomas they held a meeting this morning to consider their course and vlillc tliey not f<>r malty adopt resolutions or auv u t ui.n sort they are entirely agreed as to what i they will do many want him to retire in addition to the ohio acquisitions one of the leaders of the insurgent forces to night made the assertion that when the time comes the following additional mem bers of the regular organization will in form cannon of their unalterable opposi tion to another term for him as speaker plumley and foster of vermont law rence and ames of massachusetts hill and higgins of connecticut fairchild and par sous of new york palmer of pennsyl vania crnmpacker and bernard of in diana hamilton and mcloughlin of mich igan graff and prince of Illinois xye of minnesota davidson of wisconsin homer of idaho and anthony scott miller cal derhead reeder and campbell of kansas dalzell of pennsylvania one of cannon's committee on rules is said to have ad mitted privately that political expediency may force the party to throw cannon over board the effrrt at present seems to tje to con vince cannon that he cannot ue re-elected speaker with that accomplished it is reasoned tliat his pride may be worked on to decline a re-nomination to congress â€” voluntary retirement being preferable to prospective defeat for the speakership after re-election opposition in own delegation in cannon's own state of Illinois at least a part of his colleagues are prepar ing to do the same thing naturally such stand-patters as mckinley mann and rodenberg will stand by him members like prince foss and wilson may be ex pected to declare themselves free agents when the time comes it is really a question that i think there is no use worrying about said one of the Illinois members to-day for i be lieve the thing has already gone so far that a democratic house is a certainty in the states that insurgents come from like wisconsin lowa minnesota and kan sas the candidates are not only going to pledge themselves against uncle joe but they will make their light in the primaries at least on the issue that he shall not be re-elected as speaker in minnesota even jim tawney hither to one of the speaker's right-hand men is likely to be forced to repudiate his friend he was re-elected the minnesota member of the congressional committee to-day upon a promise to be good and that means that he is the hostage to secure fair treatment by the insurgent candidates at the hands of the committee insurgents cheered by Taft the insurgents were well pleased with the situation to-day because they had re ceived word that the president haa changed hta attitude somewhat and is now wliling that the anti-cannonists should go as far as they like in fighting the speaker so loug as they do not endanger adminu irntlou measures thereby also they got a hint that they are to be taken off the patronage black list representative miller who first an nounced that the insurgent patronage hart leen held up also spread the news that possibly the rule has been altered he sent to the postofflce department yester day the names of three appointees for small offices to make a test ease as he said nand he received word from post master general hitchcock to-day that they would go through immediately he and s . â– Â» s^>^xg^^>v.vs>4>^>^>4>^>^^i>^^>^>^^s sxs weather forecast â€” for washington insurgent blizzard v/ith high winds and 4 falling temperature storm sig nals all along the potomac | unknown 5,000 feet creates world's record 40,000 gasp at his peril frenÂ£hrrmn stays in air fifty minutes descends to greatest ovation ever given aviator jt os angeles cal jan.-12 r lojiis pauilian daring french aviator i rose 5,000.04 feet in the air in his farmqn biplane to-day breaking " the world's record for altitude forty thousand wildly cheering peo ple witnessed paulhan's flight and gave him the greatest ovation ever ac corded an aviator when he descended paulhan's own story of the flight follows ' ,';' by louis paulhan when i left the ground in my farman machine i was deter mined to beat the record for altitude i succeeded and don't see what more could be said about it my eyes hurt me a little but i experienced no fear or dizziness it was quite cold up there but a kiss from madame paulhan and this glass of hot wine is all that is necessary to dissipate any chilli ness a good cigar and i will be perfectly happy oh tertainement is was a wonderful sensation to fly so high the ocean and the valleys and mountains looked like a big plate with here and there a speck probably a little town nd directly under me another speck : â€” aviation field i was watching my altitude instrument very closely when i made roar fourth circuit the needle pointed at no 4 a^.ha i thought this is latham's record and i must go higher and higher i went holding on tight to my wheel i gradually lost all sense of space several times after i had reached the highest alti tude i turned off the current and soared along like a veritable eagle then i forgot to look down 1 1 was so still around me so peace ful that i became totally oblivious of time nor did i think of speed several times i stood still or so it seemed and i began tt feel as if i could sail forever there was no wind the air was cold but wonder fully pure every breath i took seemed to be liquid ecstasy i am glad of course over the fact that i beat latham to-morrow when he reads of this event in the paris papers he will at once go to his hangar order out his machine and try to fly higher still if he does i will fly into paradise and defy him to follow me there i had gradually dropped to an altitude of 3,000 feet when i realized that i could not spend the night in the skies i decided to shoot down at an angle of about 30 degrees straight down from where i was and 1 ad upon the spot from which i had started it was the simplest thing in the world i set down my machine ten feet from where i had started my flight paulhan a mile in the air shuts off motor and soars like a bird los axgklks cal jan 1 a pink faced little frenchman riding on a flimsy frame of wood and metal covered with white silk mounted nearly a mile above the ground this afternoon at the interna tional midwinter aviation tournament and before a madly-cheering multitude of 40 000 flying machine enthusiasts broke the world's record for altitude attained in an aeroplane it was louis paulhan of france he reached a height of 7.000 feet the frenchman's daring and sensational feat stirred watching aviators and euthu siasls into a frenzy of delight when his biplane descended to the ground about v ;â– â€¢! krnÂ«ij|gj-.i-v'>'-.fl rv-"r,n '"->< seized as be stepped stiffly from his seat i and lifted upon the sjionldcrs of frantic friends and carried in triumph before the delirious shouting throng fanlnau blushed like a schoolgirl wife enjoys triumph his petite wife who t?oukl . uot under stand a word of the praise bestowed in english upon her husband clasped her tiny gloved hands and gazed rapturously upon tie scene babbling now and tbeu musical little french phrases which sounded for all the world like the cooing of a dove waterway and primary bills pass senate amid riot solons hiss and hoot lieuten ant governor as he gavels through to third reading the daily election measure house in uproar speaker pro tem is threatened adjournment only saves rep sollitt of Chicago from vio lence third row breaks out in the subcommittee ioglesby's use of gavel cause of wild session i obeys orders of steering com : mittee while members yeh in vain senator jones touches off the dynamite by a staff correspondent i i sjutingkikld jan i beth branch or tlic legislature indulged their warlike proclivities to-day in near approaches to riÂ«tin;t in the senate lieutenant goveru or john oglesby wÂ»s hkseil w\d booted i by sheer exercise of nerve lie held half Â» hundred aogry excited men in subjection and gaveled tbruuiru to third re:tiiiu the dully committee ill the ndmiulstriitloii hopes to see become ie law governing pri mary elections the lower li li â– d its j^j^^f proceed further ' aflÃŸl liil oi v dicag nctro : . ' liairmuno^^j a session in which the represeutnt *â– " ot i the whole was tu>t only subjected t verbal i i abuse but was threatened w!ii beidg â– dragged from the speakers chnlr li was â– only by briugiug the meeting to a close â– that physical hostilities were avoided 1 to add to the militant turn u t a n a .â€¢ a j^^j house subcommittee of bfteeu tn h was referred all pending primary b tion and which no v is burnliig the lid^m night oil after an all-dny session worked^^h itself into n frenzy ri-ujr iw books and inkstands find ui'tieles of or â– niture as inedm:ns for en 1 i icgl ._â– lathe nrguineut was narrowly avoided out of chaos come result out of this chaos came results of widÂ«!,r m varying character the schmltt ivai â– h bill which is the administration nieii^j ou the subject was passed in the upp louse the daily primary bill tree from incu'ji s bering amendmenls wmch were offered in profusion is in line for pnssiige in !>;Â« senate to-morrow unless tlt 1 '.:: f i o*"l "''^^| gendered to-day precipitates another dgiil^b the administriition irhlp [^ lu'ins ruck ' nnd cracki'd hard and as opposing senat confidently expect the lower house to tear it to pieces prospects indicate the admin iÃŸfratibn programme of passiug it along will be followed the republican steering oniiiittee of h the senate which hitherto hat been a â– power of fust uiasniiuj wa 3 repndiated h ijy lieutenant governor oglev.by who b virtue of his office sits as president of r 9 seriate it w;ts repudiated by its off i members and by many of lie l!eiiui>licu senators in a dramatic moment when last seen senator jones a bb many instances has been accepted as ernor deneeu's spokesman and who broukhlh in the situation by trying to gei '""^^^ under responsibility for he gavel rule de v nanded by the steering committee wart h being advised by colleagues to lav in a supply of hot water hags for application to vfl his pedal extremities his leaflm-sliip ii h a mutter of the past 9 primary action in house fl the only other big development was tht effort in the house to bi-iug primary legis fl lation to an issue through the appointment h of the shl)conmiittee of aftecn minor h progressive developments were numerous v including the receipt of a special messtig 1 from the governer recommeikllng legisla i tion to accord greater safety to miners and i presenting the report ot the committed m named by htm to investisate the snbjcct â– the se/iate fracas dpened with the appear â– ance of the primary bill on second rending fl senator isley started the ball l-olling by h offering an amendment amounting to a v proposition to substitute bis bill which m pro^ides for secrecy as to party afftlia tlons he made a long plea but fonu4 h himself up against a stone wall wt the same fate awaited an amendment i offered by senator dunlup providing that h the order to wlilota candidates nntues islip.h i appear shall be changed fr.nn time to tim in the printing of the ballots and one t senator ciarl providii ,' that position oi fl the ballot shall be determined by drawing i lots all three wer loudly voicing iÂ«i!on-â„¢b tent wben senator ourtiss galn-.;d the foot b nnd proposed an amendment ifl members of the lower house from fb'^l operation of the bill spark in powder magazine sen:ik>r potter moved to table the j tlon^be method o asphjxlation anpilÂ«9 to_^v preceding offerings before thjl flh 1 ' "' iovern ;- r.t i jiwt^b trm -.. ir "-' *>?"?. 5th column | i i ii s â€” â– / contint.i-h on 6th pan 2d coli^^i . 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